OOC: he's in close and a good follow-up to an upset punch would be a throws a he is trying to keep these two from fighting eachother and try to focus on the fact that they have a quest in effect already: find a way to get rid of all the vampires that now threaten their home. GTG, g'night.

“Ow. Ow! Ow! When did you enchant these?!” The thief yelled, scowling as he brushed across a few of the ‘holy’ items.A sharp sizzling sounded, followed with a smell of smoke and slightly burning flesh, as the theif pulled his hands back, waving them as ‘steam’ came off.

“And those were the expensive ones! Benefit at least, all artifacts, ruins, and related are worth something, and I still have some!” The theif yelled, cackling as he hefted a few of the un’holy’, much less valued items.

OOC: Really, any artifacts would be worth something, and from what I can tell Zablex has been hoarding a lot of them.

"Just recently when you said your magic is demonic in nature." Zablex says, the items the thief stole were little more than trinkets that would be better off in a museum than in a horde due to their lack of use apart from display. "Sorry I had to do that but I would not part with some of these items; they are either too dangerous or hold great sentimental value." He says, picking up the last item that was dropped.

"Now I must be off." He looks at Sachi and Ace, "Don't harm eachother significantly; we need to save our strength for our true foes." (@Sachi, @Ace)

With that said, he vanished and appears back in his hidden fortress home and begins placing Holy magic defenses on all his possessions that were either cursed, of great value to him or were too dangerous in the hands of another. The items that had minimal Holy enchantments were like what the thief managed to steal; meager trinkets that have no use to anyone save it be for display, preferably in a museum.

OOC: and this is where he would facepalm because that would be rather disappointing to him to see that his own words have little to no effect on others. At the very least, he would hope they'd be taken into consideration.

OOC: Still worth something to the right people... mostly cults... they tend to go for basically anything that could be ‘ritualized’.... dependent on how ‘newK they are too though...

IC: “Bah! Doesn’t much matter, I didn’t come here just to go out empty handed and I know plenty of people who’ll pay top dollar for this stuff! Also, where do you keep going?!” The thief yelled, visibly irritated as he clenched his hands a few times, cracked and charred skin just visible across their edges, attempting to warp follow.

He encountered resistance; this guy had remained hidden for millennia, that wouldn't have been the case if he didn't have defenses to prevent warp following. And due to the recent discovery, it had begun being enhanced with Holy magic.

The thief felt it, like getting too close to an extremely hot (like industrial titanium refinery) furnace and that would likely force him to fall back to his point of origin (back to the arena)

Zablex had finished his treasure vaults and his personal items and had begun bolstering the library's security. The whole structure has the foundation Holy magic security set up and now specific areas were being secured.

OOC: Thanks, @Ace. Now I know who is probably going to be among the hardest to convince into listening to Zablex.

@KAI_BORG, yeah but apart from that, most of the value added on top of these trinkets would be considered rather superficial to most buyers.

“Arrrgghhh! By the seventh pit! How do you keep doing this so fast! Also, what’d you do with the others you cloak wearing copycat!” Kai yelled, stopping at just the edge of where he felt the enchantments.

OOC: Yep but he’s grabbed a good amount and cults are weird, he just has to find one of the ‘nuttier’ rich ones, tell ‘em he stole the artifacts from a ‘powerful wizard’ and ‘boom-bada-bing! Instant cash as they freak out over what they’re getting!

OOC: one of the keys of making sure your item sells well: the presentation.

IC: Zablex sensed out this intrusion attempt. "When you have lived as long as I have, you learn and can apply much knowledge and wisdom." He says as the thief finds that the defenses are expanding outward now.

The only thing that would be considered as a point of entry is the borders of the wild lands as that is where the magic will end its boundaries as that would be possibly construed as someone trying to stake claim to land in the nations without permission.

"And I would be offended, I will take it as a compliment towards my defenses." He mutters, still strengthening his defenses against demonic forces.

OOC: Yep, and lets just say he already has a good one, both from being ‘demon possessed’, and the fact that, if necessary, he will get proof that he took them from you.

IC: “Pfft! You think you’re old? I gave up on remembering my age a few decades back act this point, ya copycat!” The thief yelled, shaking a fist at the barrier.

From what Zablex had seen of the thief he was around 20 or so in age, yet as declared his statement it had an oddly truthful, If anger infused, tone to it, meaning he either believed it himself, was an amazing liar, or was speaking the truth.